The National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) discovered deviations from the regulations, including actions that caused pecuniary damage that is to be reimbursed and corrected in the immediate period, in the work of “Moldovagaz”, IPN reports, quoting a press release of the Agency.

The NAER examined the activity of “Moldovagaz” during 2016-2018. It established that in 2018 the company increased the revenues from the sale of natural gas by 282.29 million lei following the incorrect application of the regulated prices of natural gas for non-domestic end users in 2018. Consequently, “Moldovagaz” is to recalculate, in the same amount, the incorrect sums for the given category of consumers.

Also, the Agency’s specialists identified additional revenues of 109.36 million lei collected after honoring the obligation to service the external debt planned earlier in the state budget. In this connection, the Agency will take the given sum into account when calculating the tariff deviations.

It was also established that following the implementation of the new system for processing and monitoring the supplies and consumers of natural gas, “Modovagaz” recorded inefficient costs of 3.56 million lei. Consequently, the given costs will not be included when setting the new regulated costs for the natural gas supply service.

The NAER said it will monitor the implementation of its decision by “Modovagaz” and will resume the control activity in accordance with the approved plan when the moratorium on state inspections expires.